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  1. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been
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  2. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life."
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  3. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    {W}e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occassions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words.
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  4. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her {as you chose her} by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.
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  5. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it."
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  6. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.
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  7. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.
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  8. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect
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  9. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
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  10. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
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  11. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!
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  12. Charles Dickens _ David Copperfield

    You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.
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